| The Hyena is a vaguely sturdy build, high shoulders, | | | | As political elites fight for spoils in government, the |
| and long muscular limbs. It has a large head, broad, | | | | future of our nation is on the verge of total collapse |
| rounded ears. The Hyena is parasitic and borders on | | | | with no where to go imagine what would happen if the |
| laziness. Being unproductive, doesn't use its brain, thus | | | | majority of the young begging for a place in society |
| its capability to think and cultivate honest ways of | | | | got hold of loaded AK-47s and machetes, what would |
| survival is barely negligible. Of the three species of | | | | be the result? As if to add fuel to the fire, companies |
| hyena, none is found in our beloved country, as in their | | | | are being taxed to help run expensive programmes, |
| usual self but we do have their replicas in human skin | | | | forcing them to lay off another team of professionals. |
| generously spread all over Pakistan, with large | | | | The mix is a time-bomb! In an already troubled and |
| concentrations in the headship encampment. | | | | terrorist threatened atmosphere |
| With intelligent hunting skills, the Hyenas surround a | | | | Faced with a financial crisis and economic slowdown, |
| toothless old hyena at the edge of the thorny hedged | | | | countries that command 85 per cent of global |
| cattle kraal and bite it so hard that the only escape is | | | | economic output keep on coming up with strategies |
| to push through the sharp thorns. Once an opening is | | | | to safeguard their interests. To paraphrase US, EU, |
| created; an army of fierce hyenas will go into a meat | | | | World Bank and the policies of their cronies are the |
| grabbing spree. Mostly associated with cowardice, | | | | real threats facing Pakistan. Not a single penny was |
| hyenas will bite off cows' udders and goats' bowels | | | | given as devolpmental aide, all loans, another thermal |
| before they even seek to kill their prey. They would go | | | | plant was promised; why not a nuclear plant to get rid |
| to the extent of also scavenging for food from graves | | | | of the menace of power shortage, why not waive off |
| and feed on the leftovers by lions and cheetahs. But | | | | all our loans and the beauty is no body raised an |
| sometimes the pride(group of lions) turns back and | | | | eyebrow. The time is up for Pakistan to defer those |
| attack. This is exactly what happened with Mr Zardari. | | | | who simply bring home meat from a carcass that |
| Knowing well that the swiss case is likely to come up, | | | | other people once hunted as leaders. Too much focus |
| the Party and all coalition parteners pushed him into the | | | | on external assistance has destroyed local investors |
| cattle kraal, not at all expecting for the pride to turn | | | | by driving the majority to informality and forcing our |
| back. To their utter disappointment, the pride did turn | | | | minds to neglect our abilities to harness nature to our |
| back (Judiciary and the media)… Who all are on the | | | | advantage. |
| spree? Is an easy guess to make. | | | | Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â If Pakistan does not take quick |
| The most vicious type is the smaller, and even shyer | | | | steps, the country will be faced with two types of |
| brown hyena (Hyena brunet), which of course is the | | | | future leaders: those who watch too many TV soap |
| deadliest as it seems to be the most humble but yet | | | | operas and movies and who become mere celebrity |
| the most corrupt. Corruption in Pakistan has surged by | | | | political leaders; and those voters hooked on |
| whooping 400 percent in the previous couple of years, | | | | demanding kinde. The kinde and celebrity leadership will |
| said National Corruption Perception Survey 2009 | | | | provide a perfect avenue for the country to be sold in |
| carried out by Transparency International. The National | | | | exchange for exotic whisky, mirrors and guns. In such |
| Corruption Perception Survey 2009 (NCPS 2009) | | | | a scenario, an external hyena need not use an old |
| indicates that the overall Corruption in 2002 has | | | | guard to gain entry(as has been done in the past), it |
| increased from Rs 45 Billion to Rs 195 Billion in 2009. | | | | can simply walk in and grab yummy meat! |
| Police and Power maintained their ranking as the top | | | | Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â |
| two most corrupt sectors. | | | | Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â This must serve as a wake up |
| Our Great Quaid and old chiefdoms made relentless | | | | call to our 'hyena culture'. So fixated are we on looting |
| efforts and our predecessors(men,women and | | | | and collaborating with those who plunder Pakistan that |
| children) shed a lot of blood for independence and | | | | instead of pushing for productivity and cutting down on |
| creating Pakistan. On their departure, the sincere and | | | | lavish expenditure on political elites, we simply play |
| loyalist left a big carcass that we literally refer to as | | | | hyena games on people's earnings. Taxes are |
| government. Employing the hyena strategy and armed | | | | increased not to offer services to Pakistanis but simply |
| with axes and machetes, the elites have been fighting | | | | to feed the carcass-chopping frenzy. Let us get rid of |
| over the carcass left for over 63 years now. No time | | | | the hyena culture and save our motherland. |
| has been spent by Pakistanis on sharpening hunting | | | | Â |
| tools and moving deep into the forest to get their own | | | |            Finally, a Hyena's giggle is not |
| animals. They have all taken up the hyena instinct of | | | | actually laughter, but a sound of frustration or call them |
| scavenging what is left behind and what the so called | | | | fighting words. Until now these squeaky cackles were |
| friends still feed them. | | | | not well understood by scientists. Researchers |
|     The most horrifying part is that a  young | | | | recorded the sounds and did the first ever acoustic |
| breed of hyenas is springing up and learning the art of | | | | analysis to understand how the calls vary between |
| circling old ones for another meat-grabbing spree! The | | | | individuals, and when they are used. The scientists |
| crime rate has soared as unemployed youth and | | | | found that hyenas usually make these noises when |
| elderly seek unconventional means to hunt for riches. | | | | they were fighting for food, or in some kind of social |
| The outlook is not promising when one considers the | | | | conflict. "When a group of hyenas is feeding upon the |
| fact that Pakistani youth are sinking deeper in the | | | | prey you hear a lot of these giggles, especially, during |
| menace of modernism in the name of so called | | | | conflict between two individuals," |
| "enlightened moderation". It is opined that cultural | | | | Â |
| invasion is much more dangerous than a religious | | | |            The mere giggling of our leaders |
| inveigh. Being trapped in material pleasures, the DVD | | | | while commenting on every aspect of the state of |
| madness and openly devoting songs to sweet | | | | affairs makes me nauseatic. Is this giggle out of |
| hearts on media was not meant to be and cannot be | | | | frustration? a social conflict? sheer desperation; or do |
| envisaged in moderation, not in this country ,definitetly | | | | these squeaky cackles indicate the greed for fetching |
| not in our religion or culture. | | | | every bit and piece of the final kill. |